Re: [ADMIN] Some silly questions

2002-10-30 Thread Gaetano Mendola
Michiel Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:apn9vs$gou$1;news.hub.org... I was just wondering about a few options that I would think might be pretty useful. They might exist, but then, I don't know how to get it done... Here's my list: - multi-volume database. Is it possible to

[ADMIN] Behaviour patterns on pgsql (7.1.3)

2002-10-30 Thread Denis Braekhus
Hi all, Anyone experienced similar patterns on their Web-DB setups ? Short setup description : X frontend webservers (Apache 1.3.x) with php and mod_perl dynamic content. 1 backend db server (Postgresql 7.1.3). The webservers are _very_ busy, but send only a limited amount of their requests

[ADMIN] Sequences

2002-10-30 Thread Danny Morgan
I have a strange dilemma. I've created a couple sequences I can't remove. Here is an example I can CREATE SEQUENCE count1 ..; DROP SEQUENCE count1; I can't CREATE SEQUENCE count1ListItems1 ..; DROP SEQUENCE count1ListItems1; It states

[ADMIN] pg_hba.conf on win32

2002-10-30 Thread David Bear
We have a system that someone setup on cygwin. We are trying to locate where the pg_hba.conf file is and found one but it doesn't seem that it is being used. How might we (1) locate which pg_hba.conf file postgres uses on cygwin and (2) where pg is storing the data. I looked into the

[ADMIN] PostgreSQL Administration Training

2002-10-30 Thread Elizabeth O'Neill's Office Mail
Hi Does anyone know where I could get some Database administration and management training for PostgreSQL. Cheers Elizabeth O'Neill Database developer ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command

[ADMIN] Connection refused errors

2002-10-30 Thread Mick
Hello. I have a problem here with PostGreSQL (7.2.1) (running on Debian 3.0). The database appears to be functioning correctly, but /var/log/syslog is filled with the messages which look like the following: postgres[32066]: [288403] DEBUG: statistics collector process (pid 14965) exited with

[ADMIN] postgres xlog crashes - recovery procedure

2002-10-30 Thread Alexander Korobov
Hello, I'm trying to recover database(after a crash). postgres is failing to start complaining on missing transaction log file : 2002-10-22 14:53:17 [2247] DEBUG: database system was interrupted at

[ADMIN] Bit string manipulation in Postgresql

2002-10-30 Thread Ericson Smith
Hi all, I'm trying to code a problem where a set of options can be expressed in a data column like 10111011, a bit string. Each position is atomic and represents a certain setting within the set, thus: 0010 would return TRUE if OR'd with 10111011, since the 3'rd position matches in both

Re: [ADMIN] Sequences

2002-10-30 Thread Gareth Kirwan
* smacks your hand for using uppercase letters * Another big no no is not keeping your create sequences for sequences ( what a pun ) in a file somewhere. Otherwise you can't drop them because you don't remember what parameters they took ( but you can always, as you say, look at system tables )

Re: [ADMIN] Connection refused errors

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Mick wrote: Hello. I have a problem here with PostGreSQL (7.2.1) (running on Debian 3.0). The database appears to be functioning correctly, but /var/log/syslog is filled with the messages which look like the following: postgres[32066]: [288403]

Re: [ADMIN] Some silly questions

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:36:28AM +0100, Michiel Lange wrote: I was just wondering about a few options that I would think might be pretty useful. They might exist, but then, I don't know how to get it done... Here's my list: - multi-volume database. Is it possible to split the complete

Re: [ADMIN] pg_hba.conf on win32

2002-10-30 Thread Peter Eisentraut
David Bear writes: Also, since postgres starts as a windows service, how does one put commandline parms on the postmaster so that it listens to a socket. Sorry about the newbie questions but all the docs I found point to runing pg on various unicies. Consider reading the Administrator's

Re: [ADMIN] Behaviour patterns on pgsql (7.1.3)

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Denis Braekhus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Every now and then postgresql gets too busy and these patterns emerge : - some connections are just idling and not being reaped (presumably either the browser/client or the apache webserver timed out the request) - these connections stack up to a

[ADMIN] URGENT: undoing a mistake

2002-10-30 Thread Andrew Perrin
Folks, I just made a mistake that could be quite costly: I did this: update writer_survey set partid='W41308' where survid in (select survid from participants where partid='W41291' limit 1); when I should have done this: update writer_survey set partid='W41308' where survid in (select survid

Re: [ADMIN] Bit string manipulation in Postgresql

2002-10-30 Thread Josh Goldberg
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?functions-math.html is this what you're after? SELECT 1 WHERE B'1010' B'0110' B'0001'; returns 1 SELECT 1 WHERE B'1010' B'0100' B'0001'; returns null - Original Message - From: "Ericson Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ADMIN] URGENT: undoing a mistake

2002-10-30 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just made a mistake that could be quite costly: I did this: update writer_survey set partid='W41308' where survid in (select survid from participants where partid='W41291' limit 1); when I should have done this: update writer_survey set

[ADMIN] Signal 11

2002-10-30 Thread Eric L. Blevins
I'm fairly new to postgres, we are using postgresql-7.2.3 on Linux Red-Hat 8.0 I am having a problem with the shared buffers setting. Whenever I set the shared buffers above 96 I start getting Segmentation Faults when performing queries. However, if I leave the shared buffers set to 96 or lower

[ADMIN] PostgreSQL Installation on SCO

2002-10-30 Thread Shibashish
Dear Sir, I use SCO Open Server 5.0.5 on an intel box. Although I have installed and used PostgreSQL on Linux, setting it on SCO has not been smooth :) I have downloaded the latest version ie Postgresql-7.2.3. I also installed ant package for using java. I have tcl8.0, tk8.0, itclsh3.0 and